Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | Sleep deprivation in ICU |
|---|---|
| Name | Bergamini Marcello |
| Supervisor(s) | Scacchetti Daniela |
| Academic Year | 2012/13 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
“The sleep deprivation in ICU” is a thesis whose aim is to analyze how the clinical literature address the issue of sleep in the departments of critical care.
This thesis has been written studying articles of the last decade whose contents range from a general insight about sleep in the contemporary society to a more specific view on the modalities and the clinical implication of sleep deprivation in the intensive care environment. The topic develops in three levels: the first one is an overview on sleep his physiology and the diagnosis methods utilized for evince anomalies in the sleep patterns; the second part lead to the heart of the matter explaining the consequences and the etiology of sleep loss in the intensive care units. In the third parts of the thesis are regrouped the nurse’s intervention to rehabilitate patient’s sleep and the conclusion. Even if there isn’t literature shortages on the theme, the true difficulty to develop this thesis was a deficiency of qualitative on the collected material and data: truly in primis the articles’ authors admitted that the sperimental populations samples weren’t insufficient, and backwards technologies utilized couldn’t lead to relevant conclusions.